The amusing anecdote is that the guy who found this system gave his presentation about how he poured over thousands of pages of Kepler data to find the system. The guy next up on stage presented how he wrote a computer program and it had found hundreds of binaries already.

The amusing anecdote is that the guy who found this system gave his presentation about how he poured over thousands of pages of Kepler data to find the system. The guy next up on stage presented how he wrote a computer program and it had found hundreds of binaries already.

Binaries are actually more common than single star systems. It's also why we can accurately measure distances to other galaxies.

Binaries with rocky worlds in the habitable zone? Prob a bit more rare.

TheManofPA:If you find a child whose mother was raped by the force, don't ask questions, just kill the boy. I know what you are thinking: No, he'll balance the force. Don't care, just kill him.

farking midichlorians.

Seriously though, if the ability to use the Force comes down to a freaking special blood component, how the hell was there ever a Great Jedi Purge? You'd think with medical technology on par with bacta tanks, they'd be able to, I dunno, create new Jedi at will.

The amusing anecdote is that the guy who found this system gave his presentation about how he poured over thousands of pages of Kepler data to find the system. The guy next up on stage presented how he wrote a computer program and it had found hundreds of binaries already.

That it's a binary is old news. Exactly how big each is is the new news here.